Baseline geochemical characterization of potential receiving reservoirs for carbon dioxide in the Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming

Smith, Matthew; Sharma, Shikha; Wyckoff, Teal B.; Frost, Carol D.

doi:10.2113/gsrocky.45.2.93

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“…Deer ranged in elevation from 1762 m in winter to 3413 m in summer. Western Wyoming includes a variety of oil, gas, and other mineral production sites from several petroleum-producing geologic formations (Smith et al 2010), as well as rural and residential areas. Deer in the Pinedale area migrated 16-183 km between seasonal ranges.…”

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Evaluating the influence of energy and residential development on the migratory behavior of mule deer

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Migratory ungulates are often exposed to anthropogenic infrastructure along their migration routes. Understanding the influence of such development on migratory behavior is critical to successful planning and conservation. Impermeable barriers have obvious and detrimental effects to migratory ungulate populations, but the influence of semi‐permeable barriers, where the connectivity of migration habitat is maintained but the migration routes are compromised by anthropogenic development, remains unclear. We evaluated the influence of development on the migratory behavior of individual mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in western Wyoming, USA. We used fine‐scale movement data to evaluate the influence of anthropogenic infrastructure on deer movement rates, stopover use, and fidelity to migration routes for individual animals across multiple seasons and years. Deer avoided human infrastructure when selecting stopover sites. Fidelity to migration routes and stopover areas, as measured by the degree of spatial overlap between years, was not influenced by development, except in one heavily developed area. Our results suggested that deer increased rate of movement, reduced time in stopovers, and shifted stopovers in areas of intense development. In most cases, deer maintained fidelity to migration routes, regardless of development, suggesting that deer mediated exposure to development by altering movement—rates and timing—rather than the routes they traversed. This work adds to a growing number of studies indicating that development can disrupt migratory behavior. Understanding how different types and intensities of development influence migration can help inform land‐use planning and conservation of migratory ungulates.

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Evaluating the influence of energy and residential development on the migratory behavior of mule deer

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“…and the Tensleep/Weber Fms. in the Rock Springs uplift region, and data for the Teapot Dome region, following our previous studies on pretreatment and thermal treatment methods (Klapperich et al, 2012;Sullivan et al, 2013;Smith et al, 2010).…”

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“…We used several examples ranging from brackish (Madison Fm.) to high salinity (Tensleep) waters to illustrate the effects of chemistry on inorganic pretreatment costs in the WTM (Smith et al, 2010). The DEEP model does not estimate pretreatment costs, but uses an adjustable rate for pretreatment, with a default setting of $0.05/m 3 (O&M chemical costs only).…”

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Probabilistic cost estimation methods for treatment of water extracted during CO2 storage and EOR

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Pawar

2015

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

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a b s t r a c tExtraction and treatment of in situ water can minimize risk for large-scale CO 2 injection in saline aquifers during carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), and for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Additionally, treatment and reuse of oil and gas produced waters for hydraulic fracturing will conserve scarce freshwater resources. Each treatment step, including transportation and waste disposal, generates economic and engineering challenges and risks; these steps should be factored into a comprehensive assessment. We expand the water treatment model (WTM) coupled within the sequestration system model CO 2 -PENS and use chemistry data from seawater and proposed injection sites in Wyoming, to demonstrate the relative importance of different water types on costs, including little-studied effects of organic pretreatment and transportation. We compare the WTM with an engineering water treatment model, utilizing energy costs and transportation costs. Specific energy costs for treatment of Madison Formation brackish and saline base cases and for seawater compared closely between the two models, with moderate differences for scenarios incorporating energy recovery. Transportation costs corresponded for all but low flow scenarios (<5000 m 3 /d). Some processes that have high costs (e.g., truck transportation) do not contribute the most variance to overall costs. Other factors, including feed-water temperature and water storage costs, are more significant contributors to variance. These results imply that the WTM can provide good estimates of treatment and related process costs (AACEI equivalent level 5, concept screening, or level 4, study or feasibility), and the complex relationships between processes when extracted waters are evaluated for use during CCUS and EOR site development.

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“…The project characterized the geology, hydrogeology, geochemistry, and geophysical properties of the Moxa Arch and used these data and other laboratory experimental activities to construct appropriate monitoring and performance assessment regimes. This issue includes papers describing two of the major potential reservoirs, the Bighorn and Madison Formations (lynds et al, 2010b;Thyne et al, 2010), the geochemistry of the groundwaters contained within the target formations in the Greater Green River Basin (Smith et al, 2010), and the development of a multiscale parallel simulator for porous media fluid flow that can provide accurate predictions of migration and trapping of injected carbon dioxide (Douglas et al, 2010). The cyberinfrastructure to support collaborative geologic sequestration research is explored by Hamerlinck et al (2010), and the economics of fossil fuel and wind energy production under various carbon taxation scenarios are discussed by Geiger et al (2010).…”

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Geologic carbon sequestration in Wyoming: prospects and progress

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Jakle

2010

Rocky Mountain Geology

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Coal supplies nearly 50 percent of electricity generation in the United States and 25 percent of the global energy supply; Wyoming produces approximately 40 percent of the coal consumed in the United States. It is likely that near-term energy strategies will include coal and other fossil energy sources in the fuel mix, therefore mitigating carbon dioxide emissions through geologic carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is crucial. Here we discuss the current state of CCS technology across the globe and its future potential for development. We also outline the current regulatory structure for CCS in the United States, specifically Wyoming, and we introduce the study undertaken by University of Wyoming researchers and their collaborators to characterize Paleozoic deep saline aquifers on the Moxa Arch in southwestern Wyoming for long-term geologic carbon storage. The research presented in this special issue of Rocky Mountain Geology and future research that builds on these findings, such as the site characterization project underway on the Rock Springs Uplift in Wyoming, will be important steps to advance successful CCS technologies at a rate and scale that can make a meaningful impact on greenhouse gas emissions and to construct commercial geologic sequestration projects in the Rocky Mountain West.

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Baseline geochemical characterization of potential receiving reservoirs for carbon dioxide in the Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming

Cited by 13 publications

References 19 publications

Evaluating the influence of energy and residential development on the migratory behavior of mule deer

Evaluating the influence of energy and residential development on the migratory behavior of mule deer

Probabilistic cost estimation methods for treatment of water extracted during CO2 storage and EOR

Geologic carbon sequestration in Wyoming: prospects and progress

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